Somalia’s government has signed a peace agreement with the militant group, Ahlu Sunna Wal Jamaca (ASWJ.) This agreement comes before the Transitional Government launches an expected military offensive against the hardliner militant group, al-Shabaab.

Sheikh Mohamed Dahir Hefow, the militia’s leader, signed the deal with Somali Finance Minister Sharif Hassan Sheik Aden at a ceremony held at the African Union’s headquarters in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. This deal offers the militant group senior government positions in return for their military support against al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam. The agreement gives the Ahlu Sunna Wal Jamaca militia five cabinet positions as well as diplomatic posts and senior positions within the police and intelligence services.

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The Houthi rebels have released 178 civilians and soldiers of those who were captured during months of confrontations with the army that ended last month, according to some media outlets.

The captives were handed to a committee supervising the implementation of the ceasefire terms in Saada province that was put into effect on February 11.

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Violent fights are going on between hundred of young palistinians and israeli forces in different neighborhoods in Jerusalem east: witnesses said. Palestinian islamic movement Hamas has proclamed for today the «Day of angry» in reply on inauguration of synagogue Hurva in old Town. Almost 3.000 policemen and soldiers have displaced in Jerusalem and to the border with the West Bank.

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Five different simultaneous attacks, two of them made by suicide bombers, rocked the heart of the Afghan city of Kandahar. According american tv Cnn, at least 35 people are died, between them different policemen agents, and 47 are wounded. But the balance of victims is provisional.

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Somali government troops have made its initial advance into the rebel-held areas in the north of Mogadishu in a heavy fighting that left 37 more dead and injured 113, officials, witnesses said.

Witnesses said government troops with the help of the African union have crossed into the insurgency-racked district Karan. Soldiers appear to have encountered lighter than expected resistance from the Alshabaab who were reported to have entrenched in the nearby areas and mined the roadways.

‘’I have seen 18 dead al-Shabaab fighters lying on one street and 5 government soldiers’’ Resident Fadumo Osman told Somalilandpress by phone from Karan.

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Reports reaching our service desk indicate that Ethiopian militiamen based around the towns of Dig, Jarar Province and Fardhiig, Qorahay province destroyed the most houses of the two towns and the property within it.

This illegal action happened on February 2nd and February 20th 2010 respectively. It has been reported that Ethiopian militia forces encircled the towns and firebombed a gas or petrol station located within one of the most populated sections of the towns.

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About 500 Berom natives in Dogon-Hauwa village, five kilometres south of Jos, were massacred on Sunday morning by Fulani herdsmen who raided the community through a border village in Bauchi State.

Neighbours joined Dogon-Hauwa villagers to wail as the bodies of elderly women and children littered everywhere among the dead.

Plateau State Governor, Jonah Jang, who raced to the village from his private residence in the same Du district, fought back tears on seeing the havoc.

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